PHC Medical Staff

The Medical Affairs team at PHC oversees the activities described below as they relate to PHC’s Medical Staff:

• Support department and division heads recruit and retain medical staff
• Recruit and retain medical staff for leadership roles
• Medical Staff human resource planning
• Contract management and compensation (e.g. administrative stipend, clinical/academic, sessional, assigned Fee-For-Service, medical/on-call availability, diagnostic) (i.e., all non-Fee-For-Service remuneration)
• Professional and personal development, as well as performance evaluation
• Medical Staff leadership support
• Engagement in decision-making and planning processes
• External relations and reporting (e.g., BC Medical Association, Ministry of Health, VCH)
• Medical Staff conduct and behaviour
• Quality-of-care
• Medical Advisory Committee (MAC) and sub-committee support
• Enabling activities
• Creating transparent governance frameworks
• Policy development

Our goals of the website for medical staff at Providence Health Care include:

• Improving collaborative practice – easy access to information about their own areas and other specialties. Support is available when and where they need it.
• Improving patient care experience – access to forms, systems, processes and policies that allow the best provision of care
• Improving provider experience - timely access to PHC information from wherever they work. The result is more effectiveness and efficiency in their work.
• Improving knowledge of individual medical staff – positive effect on patient management and outcomes. medical staff have improved access to information required.
• Improving knowledge of individual medical staff that will positively affect patient management and outcomes – greater access to necessary information.

Please check out our Med Staff website and browse through our news and events and support pages.

Medical Staff Website